Tuesday, 2 May 2017

100 Books Before You Die

Well, with revision seemingly taking over my life, I decided to browse online shops for some new books for my shelf/drawer - the most natural thing to do when you just want to throw your laptop out the window without thinking about the Physics behind the damage it would do.

I tend to always start by researching what’s popular at the minute and so an article on amazon.co.uk caught my attention. 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime sounded interesting, and so I decided to have a look and see how many of them I had read. How many have you read?

To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

The Tiger Who Came to Tea – Judith Kerr

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt – Michael Rosen

American Gods – Neil Gaiman

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat – Oliver Sacks

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas – John Boyne

Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Noughts & Crosses – Malorie Blackman

Atonement – Ian McEwan

Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller and Howard Jacobson

Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemmingway

Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami

Bad Science – Ben Goldacte

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 – Sue Townsend

A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

The Stand – Stephen King

American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Maarquez and Gregory Rabassa

The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett

Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick

The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

Brighton Rock – Graham Greene

The Road – Cormac McCarthy

The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde

The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson

Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh

Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer

All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque

A History of the World in 100 Objects – Neil MacGregor

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China – Jung Chang

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John le Carré

Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

The Hare With Amber Eyes – Edmund de Waal

The Sense of an Ending – Julain Barnes

White Teeth – Zadie Smith

Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith

The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins

Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee MBE

Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

London: The Biography – Peter Ackroyd

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Long Walk To Freedom – Nelson Mandela

Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – J R R Tolkien

To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

Casino Royale – Ian Fleming

Knots and Crosses – Ian Rankin

The Story of Tracy Beaker – Jacqueline Wilson

The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

Venice – Jan Morris

Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathon Swift

Last Orders – Graham Swift

London Fields – Martin Amis

Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally

The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear – Arthur Conan Doyle

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson

The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson

The Mill On The Floss – George Eliot

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

The Commitments – Roffy Doyle

A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin

Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

Dissolution – C. J. Sansom

The Time Machine – H. G. Wells

Winnie-the-Pooh – A. A. Milne

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

Watership Down – Richard Adams

Stormbreaker – Anthony Horowitz

The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank

The Enchanted Wood – Enid Blyton

Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson

My Man Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – J. K. Rowling

Watchmen – Dave Gibbons

High Fidelity – Nick Hornby

Goodnight Mister Tom – Michelle Magorian

Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding

The Worst Witch – Jill Murphy

So there you have it! I’ve read 27. That’s not too bad really, how about you?